Friday's Notes
Roberta Smith,"Storm-Tossed Visionary of Light," NYT, 4 July, reviews"J. M. W. Turner," an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City.
Janet Maslin,"The Real Lincoln Bedroom: Love in a Time of Strife," NYT, 3 July, reviews Daniel Mark Epstein's The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage.
Anthony Julius,"The Lying Dutchman," NYT, 22 June, and Barry Gewen,"Knowing What We See, Seeing What We Know," Papercuts, 2 July, review Edward Dolnick's The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century.
Jennifer Balderama,"Disturbing the Peace," Papercuts, 3 July, reviews Eric Etheridge's Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders. Etheridge's blog is here.
Philip P. Pan,"A Past Written In Blood," Washington Post, 3 July, tells us about Hu Jie. He is haunted by the story of the Chinese poet Lin Zhao. While in prison, she used her own blood as ink to draft a letter opposing Communist Party policies. Years after her execution, her writings surfaced and he can tell her story.
Finally, thanks to Online University Reviews for including Cliopatria among The Top 100 Liberal Arts Professor Blogs.